Senior People Business Partner

• Be a strategic partner to VP-level engineering leaders helping them navigate change, mature their organisations, and build a healthy high-performance culture. • Focus on engineering-specific challenges such as evolving job architecture and levelling, supporting leadership transitions at the executive level, and driving consistency in how engineering talent is developed and calibrated. • Work on a global scale with a particular focus on supporting leaders globally and making complex transformations feel clear and manageable.

• Have experience as a People Business Partner or similar role supporting engineering or technical organisations ideally with exposure to fast-paced tech environments of comparable size and complexity. • Have a background working with senior leaders including Senior Directors and Vice Presidents with the ability to build trusted relationships and influence decision-making. • Have experience supporting globally distributed teams including familiarity with working across multiple regions and time zones and navigating regional differences such as those in EMEA. • Be comfortable operating in periods of organisational change or transformation while balancing strategic work with hands-on execution of core People processes. • Have strong communication and collaboration skills including working asynchronously and partnering cross-functionally. • Have significant working hours overlap with US Central or East Coast time zones.

• Have experience with job architecture updates and levelling frameworks in engineering organisations. • Have experience facilitating calibration processes at scale. • Have experience supporting engineering offsites and leadership forums. • Have transferable experience from related domains such as product or IT.

• Partner with senior engineering leaders including VPs to understand their organisations, priorities, and challenges and translate these into clear people and business priorities. • Drive and support job architecture changes in Engineering including the introduction of new levels. • Lead and facilitate key Engineering people processes such as calibrations in close partnership with the PBP team and cross-functional partners. • Advise and coach engineering leaders on topics such as organisation design, change management, and navigating global teams. • Work closely with other PBPs and Talent partners to share insights, align on approach, and ensure a consistent experience for Engineering leaders. • Use data and qualitative feedback to identify trends and recommend actions that improve effectiveness, engagement, and performance. • Support planning and execution of Engineering offsites and other key forums.

• Work fully remote from the UK. • Receive flexible paid time off. • Receive equity compensation and access to the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. • Access a growth and development fund. • Benefit from parental leave. • Receive home office support.

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